Discomfort Index {ThermIndex}

Discomfort Index

Description

This function calculates the Thermal Discomfort Index for a daily or hourly data series, based on the formula purposed by Thom(1959). Thom's index was created in 1959 at the U.S Weather Bureau in order to precise thermal discomfort levels. A chart containing the values and the discomfort level are presented on the link written at See Also section.

Usage

di(temp, ur)

Arguments

temp

Numerical Vector of Mean Air Temperature values in celsius

ur

Numerical Vector of Mean Air Temperature values in celsius

Value

Numerical vectors containing the Discomfort Index Values

Author(s)

Francisco Jablinski Castelhano - Laboclima/Universidade Federal do Paraná

References

Thom, E.C. The discomfort index. Weatherwise.(1959), v. 12, p. 57-60.

See Also

http://www.eurometeo.com/english/read/doc_heat

Examples

##----Performing the Discomfort Index calculation
di(temp=22,ur=18)